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Languages
Below is a chart of languages spoken by the Australian people. The left column is the language; the centre column is the number of people who speak it; and the right column is the percentage of the population that speak that language.


Australian population: 22409582


Chinese (all)
 371,357
 1.66%
Italian
 316,890
 1.41%
Vietnamese
 278,236
 1.24%
Greek
 252,220
 1.13%
Cantonese
 244,553
 1.09%
Arabic
 243,662
 1.08%
Mandarin
 220,601
 0.98%
Serbian
 95,365
 0.43%
French
 93,593
 0.42%
Spanish
 78,878
 0.35%
German
 76,443
 0.34%
Macedonian:
 67,836
 0.32%
Croatian:
 63,611
 0.28%
Polish:
 53,387
 0.24%
Turkish:
 50,693
 0.23%
Hindi:
 47,817
 0.21%
Maltese:
 41,393
 0.18%
Netherlandic:
 40,188
 0.18%
Tagalog (Filipino):
 39,643
 0.18%
Korean:
 39,529
 0.18%
Indonesian:
 38,724
 0.17%
Russian:
 36,501
 0.16%
Japanese:
 35,111
 0.16%
Persian:
 25,238
 0.11%
Hungarian:
 24,485
 0.11%
Tamil:
 24,074
 0.11%
Portuguese:
 23,688
 0.11%
Samoan:
 22,711
 0.10%
Sinhalese:
 20,600
 0.09%
Unspecified South Slavic:
 14,606
 0.07%
TOTAL
 2,981,633
 13.32%